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I've had it up to the gills trying to get the drivers for an NVIDIA card working with my MDK10 distro. I've exhausted every thread about the subject, I think, that I could find on the web. but the same error about missing kernel source, which it isn't, recurs. AFAIK, it may be a mismatch between the source and actual kernel version (?)

From my investigations I note my problem is a common one.

Q: So, is there not a distro out there that makes the setup and configuration of a decent graphics card, any card, something less than a nightmare?

I wrote it myself, so it's basically poorly written in English and dated, but should get you going... About the kernel source already being installed as you've mentioned, you may need to specify the path to the kernel while running Nvidia binaries. E.g:

I wrote it myself, so it's basically poorly written in English and dated, but should get you going... About the kernel source already being installed as you've mentioned, you may need to specify the path to the kernel while running Nvidia binaries. E.g:

Sorry, I wan't paying attention. I appreciate your effort and had already found your tutorial when I started grappling with this problem.

It's no problem confused_bof . Believe me, I've been there too and so have everyone in this forum, some more, some less...

But give Libranet a shot. I think that the download is free now, it will provide 3D acceleration for you right of the box and it's debian based, meaning that you have thousand of packages ready to be installed through apt-get in one command. In the case you never heard of apt-get, it works like this, for example:

# apt-get install mplayer

that will download mplayer, install all codecs, fonts, default skin and _all_ eventual dependencies... Now hold a second and think that all your system or individual packages could be updated that way and that you have over 10.000 packages available _and_ can add more servers (unofficial ones) if you like... Libranet also comes with Alien which makes easy to convert packages as .tgz(slackware) or rpm into .deb(debian) native packages...

Oh yeah, don't forget, 3D acceleration right of the box too for the supported cards...

Think about it. You can read a review of Libranet 2.7 (old, no 3D hardware support of the box) right here:

Originally posted by floppywhopper you never answered the Q : what video card do you have ? Have you checked out the HCL on this site ? Thats "Hardware compatibility list", its an excellent source of information. live long and prosper floppy

Currently the box has GEForce2 MX400 with 64M installed. I have several other nvidea cards at hand.

When I first got MDK a couple of years ago the GEForce2 card was on the recommended list, as I recall. The other cards were also purchased because they were right for linux.